different between machete vs billhook

English

Etymology

From Spanish machete, diminutive of macho (“sledgehammer”), from Latin mattea, possibly from mactare (“slaughter in sacrifice”); cognate with Old French machier, French massue, English mace.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m????.ti/, /m??t??.ti/

Noun

machete (plural machetes)

1. A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or as a weapon. The blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters long, and up to three millimeters thick.

Synonyms

• bolo
• sundang

Translations

See also

• bolo
• cleaver
• golok (Indonesian)
• knife
• hatchet
• parang

Verb

machete (third-person singular simple present machetes, present participle macheting or macheteing, simple past and past participle macheted)

1. To cut or chop with a machete.

   After some hours of intense work, we had macheted a path through the jungle to the bank of the river.

2. To hack or chop crudely with a blade other than a machete.

   You can't just machete about with a rapier and expect to succeed; you need to thrust properly.

Anagrams

• meetcha

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish machete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m????.t?/
• Hyphenation: ma?che?te
• Rhymes: -?t?

Noun

machete m (plural machetes)

1. machete

   Synonym: kapmes

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish machete

Noun

machete

1. machete.

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish machete.

Noun

machete

1. machete

Declension

Synonyms

• viidakkoveitsi

Galician

Etymology

macho +? -ete

Noun

machete m (plural machetes)

1. machete
2. mediocre method for obtaining somewhat accurate results; shortcut

Derived terms

• machetada

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish machete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?t??e.te/, /ma?t???.te/
• Rhymes: -ete, -?te

Noun

machete m (invariable)

1. machete

References

• machete in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Spanish machete

Noun

machete m (definite singular macheten, indefinite plural macheter, definite plural machetene)

1. a machete

References

• “machete” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Spanish machete

Noun

machete m (definite singular macheten, indefinite plural machetar, definite plural machetane)

1. a machete

References

• “machete” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish machete.

Noun

machete m (plural machetes)

1. machete

Spanish

Etymology

macho +? -ete

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?t??ete/, [ma?t??e.t?e]

Noun

machete m (plural machetes)

1. machete
2. mediocre method for obtaining somewhat accurate results; shortcut

Derived terms

• machetazo

Descendants

Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish machete.

Noun

machete

1. machete

References

• Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2006) Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán?^[1], segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 22

English

Alternative forms

• bill-hook
• bill hook

Etymology

Earliest use in weapon (and later, agricultural) sense, bill (a bladed pike) +? hook; other senses formed anew from various meanings of bill.

Noun

billhook (plural billhooks)

1. (weaponry) A medieval polearm with a similar construct, fitted to a long handle, sometimes with an L-shaped tine or a spike protruding from the side or the end of the blade for tackling the opponent; a bill
2. An agricultural implement often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants.
   • 1869, Richard D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, chapter 38

     I worked very hard in the copse of young ash, with my billhook and a shearing-knife; cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together, making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to drive into the cob, stiles for close sheep hurdles, and handles for rakes, and hoes, and two-bills, of the larger and straighter stuff.

   • 1887, Hardy, The Woodlanders, chapter 19:

     With a small billhook he carefully freed the collar of the tree from twigs and patches of moss which incrusted it to a height of a foot or two above the ground, an operation comparable to the "little toilet" of the executioner's victim.

3. Written as bill-hook: a part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery).
4. Written as bill hook: a spiked hook used in offices and shops for hanging bills or other small papers such as receipts.
5. (ornithology) Written as bill hook: a sharply pointed spike growing from the tip of the upper mandible of the hatchlings of honeyguides, used to destroy the eggs and kill the chicks of the host species.

Synonyms

• handbill, pruning hook, hack, hacker, hedging bill, hedging-bill, hedge bill, bill, broom hook, block hook, Yorkshire bill, vine hook

Descendants

• ? Irish: bileog
• ? Welsh: bilwg

Translations

Verb

billhook (third-person singular simple present billhooks, present participle billhooking, simple past and past participle billhooked)

1. To use a billhook

Anagrams

• hookbill